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London

Saffron Craig - Saturday, August 08, 2009

London is terrific. Design a plenty and inspiration awash. Eight hours a day of walking. Site seeing in Soho, Covent Garden, Oxford street shopping inn concept stores and designer boutiques. Enjoying quintessential British pubs with awesome food and in the entire five days we did not visit the same pub twice.

My favourite shops are Orla Kiely http://www.orlakiely.com/uk/ and Dover street Market, a concept shop that might change the way we see retail. Lucky for me it was all boiled wool and far too hot to take to an Australian summer. http://www.doverstreetmarket.com/dsmpaper/

From concept designer stores to art galleries and museums there was so much for me to take in. From the Victoria and Albert museum to the Design Museum, the Tate, St Peters, London tower. My feet took a pounding.

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Pumpkins

Saffron Craig - Saturday, August 01, 2009

Wandering around a town in the Netherlands I saw a table selling Pumpkins. I loved it and wanted to share my photo. Why do I like this so - perhaps as it reminded me of my childhood when Mum and Dad grew gourds and our house was full of them. Also because of the great colours and the fact there's an unattended table of pumpkins in the middle of a deserted little village. Quite surreal.